. Portrait and biographical album of Isabella County, Mich . ,0. % USTIN BLAIR, Governorof Michigan from Jan. 2,5r, to Jan. 4, 1865, andkown as the War Governor, isand illustration of the benifi-cent influence of republican in-stitutions, having inherited neith-er fortune nor fame. He was bornin a log cabin at Caroline, Tomp-kins Co., N. Y., Feb. 8, ancestors came from Scot-land in the time of George I, andfor many generations followed thepursuit of agriculture. His father,George Blair, settled in TompkinsCounty in 1809, and felled the trees and erected thefirst cabin in the county. T
. Portrait and biographical album of Isabella County, Mich . ,0. % USTIN BLAIR, Governorof Michigan from Jan. 2,5r, to Jan. 4, 1865, andkown as the War Governor, isand illustration of the benifi-cent influence of republican in-stitutions, having inherited neith-er fortune nor fame. He was bornin a log cabin at Caroline, Tomp-kins Co., N. Y., Feb. 8, ancestors came from Scot-land in the time of George I, andfor many generations followed thepursuit of agriculture. His father,George Blair, settled in TompkinsCounty in 1809, and felled the trees and erected thefirst cabin in the county. The last 60 of the four-score years of his life were spent on that spot. Hemarried Rhoda Beackman, who now sleeps with himin the soil of the old homestead. The first 17 yearsof Mr. Blairs life were spent there, rendering hisfather what aid he could upon the farm. He thenspent a year and a half in Cazenovia Seminary pre-paring for college; entered Hamilton College, inClinton, prosecuted his studies until the middle ofthe junior year, when, attracted by the fame
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